Posted on 06/04/2010 7:56:04 AM PDT by Steelfish
'Grim Eater' Banned From Funerals A fake mourner dubbed "the Grim Eater", who gatecrashed funerals just to eat the food on offer, has been warned off by undertakers in New Zealand.
By Paul Chapman in Wellington 03 Jun 2010
The man attended up to four funerals a week, even taking home leftovers in a "doggy bag" container. Danny Langstraat, a director of Harbour City Funeral Home in Wellington, said his company finally became so irritated with the intruder's behaviour that it took a photograph of him, which it distributed to its branch offices.
The firm also alerted grieving families to his presence. "He was showing up to funeral after funeral and, without a doubt, he didn't know the deceased," Mr Langstraat said. "We saw him three or four times a week. "Certainly, he had a backpack with some Tupperware containers so, when people weren't looking, he was stocking up," he told the Dominion-Post newspaper.
Mr Langstraat said the man, in his 40s, was respectably dressed and did not look like someone who lived on the streets. "He was always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects." The man has stopped turning up since a staff member took him aside and had a stern word in his ear, telling him he could not take food home.
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Reminds me of Al Bundy crashing all those Chucky Cheese parties for the free food.
"He was always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects."Maybe the "grim-eater" was praying for the dead. I pray for the health and souls of the inhabitants of ambulances that I hear or that pass me. If the "grim-eater" came to my funeral, I would hope someone would hand him a rosary. Sometimes, it's that little push that will get you to heaven.
Trade Mark for Grim Eaters.
Are you sure he is not just a shy zombie?
This sounds like a metaphor for Estate Taxes. (cue cymbals)
Regards,
Must be a British thing to serve food at the funeral parlor. I wonder if they put a bowl of chips on the chest of the guest of honor?
Not at funeral parlors, but we’ve known of folks who read the obits and go to funerals with the express intent of going to the luncheon afterwards. Every day they get a free lunch. Not sure that would work in a small town, though.
The sequel to “Wedding Crashers”, “Funeral Crashers.”
Homeless man: You should have said something
Did he also get reduced airfares by providing a death certificate? :-)
No but they always put a high-quality beer next to the casket. Just to make sure the person is really dead.
I went to a funeral recently in Long Beach, CA, where there was the burial rite at the adjacent cemetery, and then the luncheon at the funeral parlor. They had a dining room all set up, and had some of the funeral floral arrangements decorating the tables. It was a very nice set-up.
My brother got back from working in Iraq recently. His boss, a US State Department employee, was singularly tone-deaf to the local culture. She was always complementing the food and asking for more, which required the Iraqis, as a cultural imperative of hospitality, to go to an extraordinary amount of expense and effort to gratify her whims. She had no clue how much she was imposing on them. She earned a nickname which roughly translated to “the funeral moocher”.
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